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The major concern of the essays in this book is to trace the emancipating values induced through the recognition of multiple perspectives as opposed to the socially maintained hegemonil standpoints. Each essay although starting off from various cultural locales and theoretical positions-whether it is about autobiography or painting-attempts for the most a rediscovery of woman’s history and culture, particularly in the case of non-European communities that have ...
Tradition and Terrain is an attempt to map out the emergence of an aesthetic awareness in terms of the land, region and creative consciousness. The essays trace the presence of adbhuta rasa as an the aesthic of wonder, formulate a critique of ceremony, and reach beyond the phenomenal into the innermost possibilities of ecological wisdom and alter/native discourses, even while reconstructing a poetics of bhakti in the context of India tradition. Although written ...